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A fact from Bill Pulte appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 February 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bill Pulte describes himself as the "inventor of Twitter philanthropy"?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 18:00, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Bill Pulte is the self-described "Inventor of Twitter Philanthropy"?

Source: Detroit Free Press ("Pulte calls himself the 'Inventor of Twitter Philanthropy' in his Twitter bio and presents the outward manner in real life of a man two decades older.")

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mammillaria glassii (1/3)
Comment: To complete QPQ within 24 hours.

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 294 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:53, 23 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 16:16, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Sized at 2238 B and created seven days before nom. The 23.7% Earwig score is from a large quote. Made sure everything was verified. ミラP@Miraclepine 16:35, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"numerous fixes"

@Launchballer: I feel like your edits make the article more, I don't know, awkward? Having everything smashed into two giant paragraphs with no sections which includes keeping completely unrelated sentences smushed together just feels worse. I could see putting, e.g. that he married after his fraternity in the "early life" section if you want to get rid of a section, but otherwise I don't feel like this is an improvement. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:43, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still, now the lead is that he's a guy who studied journalism at Northwestern, was president of his school's fraternity and married, which says nothing of his notability or his leading of a federal agency. Sections exist for a reason. I wouldn't even object if you wanted to create one section "Biography" from this and merge the philanthropy and FHFA paragraphs, but I dislike this formatting. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:54, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's on the MOS:NOLEAD border, so I reinstated the lead.--Laun chba ller 19:33, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support judgment of philanthropy

No support listed as philanthropist 67.173.119.133 (talk) 18:39, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See for example this article. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:41, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

-That was the question that i had also: So giving away money on twitter makes one a "philanthropist", or is that just the norm for people trying to get more followers on social media sites? That doesn't seem so noble when receiving something in return and then bragging about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.25.42.233 (talk) 12:45, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

True. He only gives money away when he gets an immediate benefit form it - Followers on social media.

Other media in numerous cases called this out. I'd like to add it to the article.

Why Is This Billionaire Giving Away Money on Twitter?

Twitter philanthropy’ reveals chasms in social safety net KlartextSpeaker (talk) 08:35, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. Robloxguest3 (talk)

21:10, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Bill Pulte/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: ElijahPepe (talk · contribs) 23:44, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Robloxguest3 (talk · contribs) 23:15, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

On the first glance, I noticed how short it is for a GA. I know that it doesn't really matter what the length is, but I usually see larger articles. I did check the grammar and I didn't find any issues. I did check it with the Manual of Style, and it met the layout guidelines. Now getting to verifiability, i spot checked the sources which I saw were pretty reliable. So yeah the article was focused. In the edit history, I think there was some sort of disagreement or something, but I am new to the article so I don't know the context to that. So yeah the article passed!

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
2. Verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).	Confirmed during spot check. Sources like the NYT, WSJ, etc. are used.
	2c. it contains no original research.
	2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.	used Earwig's Copyvio tool. 0% match.
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.	I did not see an unbalance of viewpoints
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.	Stable enough. I noticed in the edit history perhaps slight disagreement about some things, however there is not an edit war and I do not know the article well enough.
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	The images meet this rationale. The portrait image of him has a valid fair use rationale (it is a work of the US Government.)
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
	7. Overall assessment.	No glaring issues! I will run AutoEd just in case but the article met all critera

@Robloxguest3: Are you interested in continuing this review? Z1720 (talk) 01:37, 30 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have marked this as needing a second opinion. This can be removed if Robloxguest3 returns. Z1720 (talk) 17:33, 9 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! This is Robloxguest3, the reviewer. I do want to complete the review, however I am unsure when I will get to it. If I don't get to it tomorrow, we might need another editor to complete the review. -RG3 Robloxguest3 (talk) 03:54, 10 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Robloxguest3: Are you still interested in finishing this review? Z1720 (talk) 16:57, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
i'll finish it today. Apologies Robloxguest3 (talk) 20:40, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

To add to article

To add to this article, in order to help this article be more properly encyclopedic: his ethnic heritage. Is he of German heritage? ~2026-20625-89 (talk) 14:43, 3 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]